Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- UaruDeep Cut85points
- Ubaghs’ leopard lizardDeep Cut85points
- Ubatuba dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Uber Milk Moon SnailDeep Cut85points
- Ucamara catfishDeep Cut85points
- Ucayali Bald UacariDeep Cut85points
- Ucayali catfishDeep Cut85points
- Ucayali South American Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ucayali striped pimDeep Cut85points
- Ucayali Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Uco Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Ucubis MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Ucucha Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ujukam Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ulapes serotineDeep Cut85points
- Ulrich Sinsch's Rubber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ultramarine GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Ultramarine hover flyDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella SlugDeep Cut85points
- UmbrellabirdDeep Cut85points
- Umuarama SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Una dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Una heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Una Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Una tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned MylonDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed hermaphroditic anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Unbranched HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Uncertain OwletDeep Cut85points
- Uncertain Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Unchog Rubber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Uncolored Clearwing-SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Uncommon sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Underwood's Spectacled TeguDeep Cut85points
- Undistinguished sabretoothDeep Cut85points
- Unduavi Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Undulated AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Undulated AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Undulated Leaf-litter SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Undulated TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Unforeseen terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored TapaculoDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.